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My Confession · At the Ninth Gate

EXERCISE 2 OF 59
Groove G -- Part G
34 / 138 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART B
PART G
PART I
PART G
PART I
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesLGIBN+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 9
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Confession on drums

138 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-6, ride through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-10 and ride through bars 11-12, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-40, 73-75 and 86-91, and 3 more places -- 24.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    38
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x----x--x--x-x--|
My Confession -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 16, 27, 36, 37, 41 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 24-38 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Bars 42-86 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is My Confession?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is My Confession hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in My Confession?

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 16, 27, 36, 37, 41 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED